Category Archives: Big data

By Angus Kidman, LifeHacker Right now, big data skills are much in demand. But what will happen as software becomes sophisticated enough to handle many of those functions? This topic came up during a Cisco media event in Sydney yesterday after Cisco Australia CTO Kevin Bloch noted the current huge demand for people with analytics

By Lisa Arthur-Forbes Big data is new and “ginormous” and scary –very, very scary. No, wait. Big data is just another name for the same old data marketers have always used, and it’s not all that big, and it’s something we should be embracing, not fearing. No, hold on. That’s not it, either. What I